RECENT RECORDINGS

dispatch bigSphinx The new solo album from Tom Law / bigSphinx. Created in Max/MSP. May contain granulated viola da gamba. Mastered by Alvaro Domene at Singularity Studios in Kingston NY.

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BIG BANANA BONG by ELKA BONG Al Margolis - cymbal, objects, happy clamper contact mic, acoustic guitar, cello, transformations & redundancies Walter Wright - drum kits, tin cans, pot & paint can lids, aluminum pie plates with CillaVee - voice, cello, piano, various percussions, everything but the kitchen sink Tom Law - treble viol, Max/MSP

TOMKA BONG by ELKA BONG "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau." ~ André Breto Surrealists first played the game "Exquisite Corpse" at Bretons house in Montparnasse, 54 rue du Château (no longer existing). Besides himself, Breton mentions Marcel Duhamel, Jacque Prévert, Yves Tanguy and Benjamin Péret as original participants. Henry Miller often played the game to pass time in French cafés during the 1930s ~ Wikipedia Al Margolis - viola [1]; violin, objects & contact mics [2]; Casio CZ-101 [3]; xylophone [4] Walter Wright - amplified drum kit [1,4]; Board Weevil [2, 3, 4] with Tom Law - MAX/Msp

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CCC by ELKA BONG During our Spring 2023 residency at The Center for Connection and Collaboration in Asheville NC, we had the opportunity to play with Mark Hosler [Negativland] and Kris Gruda. Al Margolis - clarinet, violin, contact mics, objects Walter Wright - Board Weevil, contact mic, objects Tom Law - Max/MSP, treble viol with Mark Hosler - Booper, Volca FM, Soft Pop, Board Chirper, Moffenzeef, M.S.G., TC-11, broken Astro acoustic guitar, modified drum calculator, toy megaphone, rattlers, objects, and lots of FX pedals. Kris Gruda - guitar

Errant Space Podcast #86: my 2nd collaboration with guitarist/composer Craig Chin. This time I played viola da gamba as well as laptop.

Errant Space Podcast #58: my first collaboration with composer/recordist/guitarist Craig Chin.

A reboot of Al Margolis' Ponzi Pieces. This one features: N.B. Aldrich, guitar Al Margolis, violin etc Steve Norton, alto clarinet Kevin Cheli, percussion and mallets Tom Law, electronics Ron Anderson, electric guitar Mike Watt, bass guitar